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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Plagiarism
Wilson Mizner

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Genius Borrows nobly.
Plagiarism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Plagiarism
John Dryden

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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
Plagiarism
B. B. King

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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Plagiarism
Wilson Mizner

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Plagiarism
Lionel Trilling

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Nothing is new except arrangement.
Plagiarism
William J. Durant

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Nothing is said which has not been said before.
Plagiarism
Terence

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Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Plagiarism
Donatus

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Plagiarism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
Plagiarism
Benjamin Disraeli

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So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
Plagiarism
Peter Townsend

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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Plagiarism
Malcolm Mclaren

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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Plagiarism
George Moore

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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Plagiarism
Lionel Trilling

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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
Plagiarism
Benjamin Franklin

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Plagiarism
Sir Richard Burton

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
Plagiarism
Mark Twain

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Dean William R. Inge

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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Plagiarism
Anatole France

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun